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General Grief Resources

These books and pamphlets provide an excellent source of information for families dealing with the loss of a loved one. They discuss grief and loss as an overall topic.

Healing The Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas For Families, Friends, and Caregivers
When a friend suffers the loss of someone loved, you may not always know what to say. But you can do many helpful, loving things. Compassionate and eminently practical, Healing The Grieving Heart offers 100 fresh ideas for supporting a grieving friend or family member.

The Journey Through Grief
A spiritual companion for mourners featuring reflections and spiritual passages to help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings.

Living Through Grief
A book explaining the stages of grief with practical suggestions to learn to live with loss with a Christian point of view.

A Minister Speaks About Funerals
A Minister's perspective on the physical and emotional aspects of the funeral process.

On Death
A collection of writings about life and death from poets, saints, and sages of world history  to offer solace at a time of loss.

A Time to Mourn
A general guide on grief to aide in recovering from the death of a loved one.

It Hurts to Lose a Special Person
A short book of poems, prayers, and readings from a Christian perspective to understand grief.

Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul: Stories About Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One
This collection of inspirational stories will undoubtedly touch many hearts. Written by authors who have lost loved ones, these stories offer comfort, peace and understanding to those going through the grieving process.

Beyond Grief
Section I addresses the universal aspects of grief and offers dependable coping strategies for dealing with the wide array of emotions encountered. Section II explores specific types of loss. Section III explains how survivors can get help during their grieving process.


Hugs for the Hurting
Stories, Sayings and Scriptures to Encourage and Inspire.

Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul
Offers encouragement for anyone confronting challenging issues. Each story emphasizes triumph in the face of overwhelming odds and demonstrates that no matter how difficult  a situation, other people have lived through it and emerged with renewed strength.

Rays of Light
This book is dedicated to people everywhere with the hope that they will find within these pages hope and inspiration which will light their way along grief's dark path.

From Grief to Grace: Images for Overcoming Sadness and Loss
A collection of images to assist people in naming, processing and overcoming grief caused by illness, a loved one's death, a job loss, or similar difficult situations.

On Death and Dying
In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Don't Take My Grief Away: What to Do When You Lose a Loved One
Gently, with warm, consoling, and practical guidance, Doug Manning addresses the painful, often disorientation aftermath of the death of a loved one, helping the bereaved cope with the emotions and confront the decisions that are an inevitable part of this time of radical life adjustment.

Seven Choices - Taking the steps to new life after losing someone you love
An inspiring and profoundly moving book that offers hope, comfort, and advice to those who have suffered loss.

Survivor's Guide
This booklet is designed to help make the period of change after a death as easy as possible.

How to Survive the Loss of a Love
One of the most directly helpful books on the subject of loss ever written, the first edition of this comforting and inspiring book, published in 1976, sold nearly two million copies. This encompasses the medical and psychological advances in the treatment of loss.

Death a Bridge to Life
In order to live fully, you must die fully. This book shows you how. It reveals God's Word in a setting of essays that will make you fly, even as God's eagle. You will die to deadly things, and be made alive by the Spirit of God. All you have to do is cross the bridge - from death to life.

Joy for the Heart
A collection of poems and quotations that reflect upon and celebrate the nine fruit of the Spirit that God cultivates in our lives: Love, Patience, Faithfulness, Joy, Kindness, Gentleness, Peace, Goodness, Self-Control.

The Psychosocial Aspects of Death and Dying
Presents an insightful approach to the psychological and sociological aspects of death and bereavement.

Poems for Father; A Loving Heritage
Poetry collection celebrating Fatherhood.

Hope for the Flowers
A beautiful little gift book about life and mostly hope.

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Expressions of Sympathy

It can be difficult to find the right words, so we have hand-picked a collection of sympathy and remembrance gifts that will be cherished.

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